tonespace

maintainer ildus · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary (tonespace) and shared library (tonespace.so) from mucoder.net, which is the official vendor website for this product (the url= field matches the download host). The binary is executed directly and the .so is installed to /usr/lib. While mucoder.net appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site rather than a random personal host, it is not a major trusted platform (GitHub releases, etc.), and there is no source code — only prebuilt binaries with a sha256 checksum. The checksum provides integrity but not authenticity. This is a classic medium-risk pattern: prebuilt closed-source binaries from a small vendor site with no way to verify the build chain. The risk is real but not evidence of active malice.

Triggered rules

MEDIUM source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

  • PKGBUILD:9 source=("https://www.mucoder.net/en/tonespace/v0209/download/tonespace-2.9.20220308.2-linux.zip")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary (tonespace) and shared library (tonespace.so) from mucoder.net, which is the official vendor website for this product (the url= field matches the download host). The binary is executed directly and the .so is installed to /usr/lib. While mucoder.net appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site rather than a random personal host, it is not a major trusted platform (GitHub releases, etc.), and there is no source code — only prebuilt binaries with a sha256 checksum. The checksum provides integrity but not authenticity. This is a classic medium-risk pattern: prebuilt closed-source binaries from a small vendor site with no way to verify the build chain. The risk is real but not evidence of active malice.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Ildus Kurbangaliev <i.kurbangaliev@gmail.com>
2pkgname=tonespace
3pkgver=2.9.20220308
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="chord generator and visualizer"
6arch=('x86_64')
7url="https://www.mucoder.net/en/tonespace"
8license=('unknown')
9source=("https://www.mucoder.net/en/tonespace/v0209/download/tonespace-2.9.20220308.2-linux.zip")
10sha256sums=('a4b7e19f4cf080b971978202bb483f5bd1b44c367f1326d504440725a483b7ea')
11
12package() {
13 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
14 chmod +x tonespace
15 cp tonespace "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
16 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/lib"
17 cp tonespace.so "$pkgdir/usr/lib"
18}
19

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